Values of the Kingsgate Christian Fellowship

"Releasing the Kingdom of God by the power of His love."

We Value:

The Bible

• As the infallible, inerrant, inspired Word of the living God. Our supreme authority for faith, life, and doctrine.
• Thinking Biblically and obeying Scripture.
• Following Jesus' example in believing, speaking, living the Word.
• The reading of the Bible individually, and the teaching ministry in the life of the church.
• The unity of Word and Spirit, and the need of the Holy Spirit in making us alive to the Scriptures.

 

The Holy Spirit

• The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit, the third Person in the Trinity.
• Being baptised and filled with the Spirit; just as Jesus our Saviour was for his ministry.
• The gifts and ministries of the Spirit in our daily lives and gatherings.
• The fruit of the Spirit in our characters.
• We value Him and want to make Him welcome in us, and in our meetings, not quenching, resisting or grieving Him.

 

Grace

• Living and rejoicing in God's grace and unmerited favour towards us.
• Not striving anxiously to earn and merit God's love and acceptance, but receiving this in Christ.
• Living to please our Father out of love and gratitude.
• Establishing a culture of grace; living in it and extending it to others.
• Developing a family feel, with informality and flexibility as keynotes; resisting formality, rigid structures and traditionalism.

 

The Body of Christ the Church

A- The Individual

• Each Christian as valuable and special as a child of God.
• Being secure in God; overcoming low self-esteem and finding our place in the church.
• Being trained, and going on to maturity in Christ, developing gifts and talents to God's glory.
• Being gentle and meek, avoiding manipulation and coercion.
• Avoiding a performance mindset, doing nothing for effect; being real and transparent.
• Rejecting status through position or labels; relating to leaders as people and not as impersonal office bearers.

 

B-The local Church

• The mobilising and training of all the members of the church through the fivefold gifting of the apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, pastoring and teaching.
• Sharing life together in unity and love.
• Encouraging one-another daily, being friends together.
• Maintaining unity by sorting out problems.
• Anointed with the Holy Spirit to continue the ministry of Jesus.
• Aim to attain to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
• A new wineskin, flexible and open to change and expansion.

 

Worship

• Worshipping the Lord in Spirit and Truth.
• Proclaiming Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords
• Glorifying God for his grace to us in Jesus.
• As the offering of the whole of our lives, not just Sundays.
• Relying on the Holy Spirit to give life, freedom and power.
• The involvement of our bodies, minds and spirits, showing through outward expression the desire of the heart.

 

Love

• As the hallmark of God's people.
• Knowing and showing the love of God.
• Living in this love, as a lifestyle
• Oneness, unity and love that Jesus prayed for.
• Maintaining love by being humble, forgiving and ready to apologise.
• Watching out for and supporting every member.

 

Marriage and Family

• Marriage based upon a public, life-long covenant between a natural man and a natural woman.
• The only God given context for the physical and joyful expression of our sexuality.
• As the gracious gift and calling of God for Christians, who are to marry “in the Lord”, that is to another believer.
• Valuing the gift and calling of some Christians to celibate singleness.
• As symbolic of the union between Christ and his church; calling for the husband’s loving, sacrificial, Christlike leadership and headship, with mutual love, support, tenderness, loyalty, and partnership in the Holy Spirit’s empowering.
• As the Biblical foundation of family life in which children, God’s gift, are raised and nurtured.
• Accepting the sad fact of marital breakdown, with the possibility of reconciliation, but also of justifiable divorce and remarriage within Scriptural bounds.

 

Leadership

• Valuing leaders as one of God's gifts to his church.
• The essence of leadership as servanthood
• Leaders working in teams.
• Allowing leaders to work according to their strengths, gifting and calling.
• Loving, supporting and encouraging leaders in their work, recognising that they will not be perfect.
• Raising issues, concerns and questions directly with leaders.

 

Evangelism

• As the natural overflow of knowing God's love and wanting to share this with others.
• Recognising and releasing the Eph 4 gift of the evangelist to equip others.
• Seeking to obey God's command to make disciples and bring them through to maturity.
• Being involved personally, locally and wider afield.
• Training Christians in Spirit-filled evangelism, with the expectation of signs, wonders and divine appointments.
• Being culturally relevant, informal and flexible.

 

Salvation through Jesus

• Focusing on and being proud of the Cross of Jesus.
• Earned for us once and for all by Jesus by his death on the cross and his resurrection.
• Knowing salvation and wholeness, being freed from sin and its consequences in the past, present and future.
• Choosing not to sin, not letting sin reign in our lives. Salvation as a process, admitting our faults and confessing our sins.
• Looking forward to the completion of our salvation when we will be free from the power and presence of sin.

 

Prayer

• As vital and crucial, individually and together.
• Praying in the Holy Spirit, in tune with him.
• Relying on Jesus as our Advocate.
• Accepting our own weakness in this area and learning to draw on God's strength.
• Using the gift of tongues.
• Seeing fasting as a powerful weapon.
• Maintaining a clear conscience so that we can pray.

 

Faith

• As the gift of God so that we may know him.
• A life lived in active dependence on God.
• Sharing the whole of our lives with God.
• Not being paralysed by worry; resisting panic.
• In faith serving God, fulfilling his purposes and overcoming obstacles and barriers.
• Knowing the dynamic force of faith in signs, wonders, healings, miracles and deliverance.

 

The Kingdom of God

• The great theme of Jesus' teaching and ministry.
• As the rule and reign of God, dynamically present now, growing and advancing, to be finally realised in the Second Coming.
• Seeing the church as the community of the Kingdom; serving, seeking and praying in the Kingdom.
• That this is the age of the Holy Spirit, and that we need his power in the battle against darkness, disease and death.
• Rejoicing in the victory of our King Jesus in his Cross, Resurrection, Ascension, Exaltation and Second Coming.
• Seeing ourselves as servants and soldiers of this Kingdom, with lives of destiny and purpose.